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I think that if it was possible to build commercial software without relying on VS it would greatly boost the popularity of this awesome SDK. Now it's good for "hobby" projects only.

I tried to build the v2.3.7 using the instructions in the thread. I'm not sure how I should do it on Windows 7, should I run 'automake'? It didn't generate any .in files, but I got this in the console:

configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
configure.ac:17: required file `./config.guess' not found
configure.ac:17: `automake --add-missing' can install `config.guess'
configure.ac:17: required file `./config.sub' not found
configure.ac:17: `automake --add-missing' can install `config.sub'
configure.ac:85: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.ac:85: `automake --add-missing' can install `install-sh'
Documentation/Overview/Makefile.am:3: wildcard $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
Documentation/Overview/Makefile.am:3: (probably a GNU make extension)
Documentation/Overview/Makefile.am:4: patsubst %.xml,%.html, $(notdir $(XML_FILES: non-POSIX variable name
Documentation/Overview/Makefile.am:4: (probably a GNU make extension)
Documentation/Overview/Makefile.am:11: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
Documentation/Reference/Makefile.am:1: wildcart images/*.png: non-POSIX variable name
Documentation/Reference/Makefile.am:1: (probably a GNU make extension)
Setup/pkgconfig/Makefile.am:2: subst .pc,-$(LT_RELEASE: non-POSIX variable name
Setup/pkgconfig/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
Setup/pkgconfig/Makefile.am:5: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
Sources/App/Makefile.am:3: WIN32 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
Sources/App/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
Sources/App/Makefile.am:1: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
Sources/App/Makefile.am:1: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
Sources/App/Makefile.am:1: If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac', make sure
Sources/App/Makefile.am:1: its definition is in aclocal's search path.
Sources/App/Makefile.am: object `libclan23App_la-clanapp.lo' created by `Win32/clanapp.cpp' and `Unix/clanapp.cpp'
Sources/App/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
Sources/App/Makefile.am: `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp'
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCXX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: The usual way to define `am__fastdep
CXX' is to add `AC_PROG_CXX'
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: The usual way to define `AMDEP' is to add one of the compiler tests
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC,
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: AM_PROG_AS, AM_PROG_GCJ, AM_PROG_UPC
/mingw/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found
Makefile.am: `automake --add-missing' can install `INSTALL'
Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found

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